Creamy Bittersweet Chocolate Pie
By: Tina Marie
Published: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 10:46am

Ingredients




Pie shell, prebaked
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 sugar
2 cups of milk
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
3 egg yolks
2 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons vanilla

Preparation

1 Prepare a pie shell, prebake...I took the easy way and used the kind from the refrigerated section at the grocery store. 2 In top of a double boiler, combine sugar, all-purpose flour and sugar. 3 Add, stir and cook - over - not in - boiling water for 10 minutes or until mixture thickens 2 cups of milk. Add two ounces of chocolate (I used the Baker's brand found in the section with flours, oils, etc) 4 Stir and when thickened and the chocolate is all melty, remove from heat. 5 Beat slightly - 3 egg yolks. 6 For once the kitchen gods were smiling at me (probably with pity but that's Ok, I'll take the break!) and I managed to break the eggs over a can, dumping the whites into the can while the yolk went back and forth between the shells. 7 Stir half the mixture into the beaten egg yolks, mix well. 8 Return the eggy mixture to the pan and stir into hot mixture. 9 Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla (I used a good quality Madagascar vanilla). 10 Cool slightly before tipping this mixture into the prebaked crust. 11 What would I do differently? Maybe use a graham cracker crust or make my own crust with crumbled oreos. That would be good.